Anti-Social

jennas312

Anyone else feeling this way at family or friend gatherings?
I cancelled dinner plans this week with friends ,  last weekend had neice's birthday party, but spent most of time staying seated.
Have friends coming over tonight, but don't really want to now. Might just be my exhaustion. idk.

Mtnmommy

Feeling a bit of the same. I'm pretty introverted though, so gatherings are hard for me anyway. I feel even more so with all the exhaustion going on. 

LAMCH1980

::raises hand:: 
I don't want to be around anyone. I'm introverted too, but it's not usually this bad. I think part of my insomnia is just me waking up so I can just be alone in the house. 

zseirecarg

Yup. Feel the same way @jennas312. I am happy to just relax at home with DH.

jennas312

I'm not introverted though that's why I've noticed a difference. It's not that I don't  want to be anywhere...it's just exhausting right now. I'm a teacher and I feel this way at times at work. Usually, I can pull together  enough energy, but not always right now.

jennas312

@graceriesz my husband and the couch are my bff first  trimester . 

wifeinraleigh28

This is definitely me right now. I would much rather be alone or with my DH than have any kind of social interaction. I definitely think it's all the exhaustion and first trimester anxiety.

Knottie42089123

I'm completely antisocial. When I'm not working or going to bed at 7:30pm I'm in bed watching Shameless on Netflix

zseirecarg

@jennas312 ditto

MrsCaliRN

Yeah. I am normally a very outgoing person and I noticed antisocial qualities emerging when I was pregnant with DS and again now. I assumed it had to do with feeling uncomfortable (so to speak) in my own body with all the changes, external and internal. I especially struggled with people knowing I was pregnant since week 13 with DS, but not "showing" until week 23. I was like, do I look pregnant in the face? Should I waddle more? Are people judging what I'm eating or what I talk about if it isn't strictly baby-related?

You are definitely not alone in the psychosocial changes that accompany this crazy business of growing a human.

brooklynmama718

Totally anti-social and don't want to go anywhere. Working M-F as a Teacher and teaching a course at the University in the evenings 3 times per week are enough. I feel bad for my husband but that's how I feel. No energy or motivation.

doodleoodle

Totally. 

I just have not been feeling myself. Between the exhaustion and nausea it's hard to have the energy to put myself together, much less to be "on" after I've done so. 

I put a chair in my bathroom so that I could sit down while I got ready today. No shame. Lol

kahlan82

@jennas312 I am teacher too and have a great class but I just don't care. I feel bad about it but am hoping that once the pregnancy is public knowledge I will be more excited to be at school. Right now, home is the only place I can be open and I think that is part of the reason school is not a focus.

halfthetree

Absolutely! I want to just be alone in my bed, all day every day. I don't even really feel like husband time, my kids are amazing but I'm absolutely exhausted.

kmd0501

I was the same way tonight. I just came off my third night shift this morning and had to stay up for a 10am u/s. I had made plans with some friends for Christmas craft night, which I'm usually all for, and then wanted nothing more than my sweatpants and the couch.  DH had a guys night planned and really pushed me to go out with the girls and I was so glad he did. I had my nap and woke up on my own feeling pretty good but I have definitely felt like the couch is the hot spot for me lately. 

sls

My life every day... But I usually don't cancel plans (that have been made very strategically in the first place). But I haven't been able to do anything social for the past 1.5 months.

amberp1528

I have been like this latley as well. Heck I order my groceries on amazon prime now so I didn't have to leave the house and fight the store they will be here in 2 hours! 

zseirecarg

@amberp1528 my DH suggested this today as I was complaining about having to have to go grocery store.

LAMCH1980

amberp1528 said:

I have been like this latley as well. Heck I order my groceries on amazon prime now so I didn't have to leave the house and fight the store they will be here in 2 hours! 

Wait! What? They deliver groceries in 2 hours?

kmd0501

I had a few girlfriends who used peapod after they delivered and said it was amazing. They even bring the groceries in and put them on the counter for you!

awoodruff27

Yep me too. Just no desire for small talk. or to put real clothes on. My oldest has speech today, and that means 30 min of small talk in the waiting room. One lady never leaves me alone. She thinks we are bffs, though I don't even know her name. 

acrose0226

Very antisocial. I don't have the energy for socializing right now. I get exhausted. Plus it's hard, because no one knows yet that we're pregnant so they're all like "what's new?" and I'm like "oh y'know...nothin' really....." and then it makes it sound like our life is completely boring when really we're already trying to get house projects done, planning budgets, thinking about maternity leave, etc....so really there's A LOT going on, but I just can't talk about it!

lauren617-2

YES!! Yesterday, we pulled into the grocery store and there were so many cars and it was such a zoo that I panicked and told my boyfriend that I couldn't do it! It was so strange! I've always had anxiety but not to the point that I panicked about a crowd at the store!